ABSTRACT
Samuel P. Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order at a time when two theoretical traditions dominated political science: realism and liberalism. The debate between realism and liberalism in international relations is almost as old as the discipline itself. The academic discipline of international relations has always sought to have an impact on policy. Huntington launched his landmark theory within a field characterized by debate between liberals and realists. Both of these academic traditions fielded respected thinkers with very different explanations for how the world works, and Huntington was in the realist camp. The debate between realist and liberal thinkers, however, took place primarily in the pages of even more academically oriented journals. In general, most of the realists’ work appeared in International Security, published out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
